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Quantum Reality's Eight Types

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by Nick Herbert, but focuses only on a few. The paper concludes that the many worlds perspective is the most logical. Bibliography lists 7 sources SA148Q.rtf  The varieties of quantum reality are broken down into digestible pieces for general audiences. To that end, Herbert (1987) divides people into two types, which are the pragmatist and  the realist. A pragmatist deals in facts only while a realist "believes that a good theory explains that facts because it makes contact with a reality behind those facts" (p.4).  He goes on to explore eight interpretations of quantum mechanics. Each is logical or troublesome in its own right. There are in fact  many different realities described by Herbert and they are worth exploring. Other scientists have concurred to some degree with Herberts analysis, but many have added to it, or critiqued it.  In any event, Herbert incorporates major interpretations of quantum reality and in focusing on the major, or at least more popular paradigms, one can possibly get a glimpse of reality.  Hugh Everetts Many Worlds Model is one such popular model. In creating the view, Everett had been trying to solve the  problem as to why people see only one of the multiple states in where a particle can exist (Folger, 2000). Prior to Everetts work, physicists had crafted an  explanation that is the typical way of coping with quantum phenomena (2000). In this view, the very act of observing causes all possible states of a particle to "collapse"  quickly into a single value, and this specifies the position or energy of that particle (2000). To understand how this can be possible, one might imagine that the particle